Water-closet.



L. F. ERWIN; WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJ, 191 6.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

INVENTOR ATTOR N EY WITNESSES FFTQE.

LUTHER F. ERWIN, 0F FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA.

WATER-CLOSET.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented 001;. 16, 1917.

Application filed August 1, 1916. Serial No. 112,578.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, LU'ruun F. ERWIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Payne, in the county of Dekalb and State of' Alabama,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Closets, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to waterclosets, particularly to the hopper of awater closet, and has for its object to provide a hopper which shall besanitary, convenient for personal use under all conditions and seasons,and which shall be thoroughly washed whenever flushed so that no odorarises therefrom. v

Another object of the invention is designedto provide integral supportsextending up\\"ardly from the hopper which form a rest'for the back ofthe user when sitting on the hopper and also as a seat when, as inpublic service stations and other places open to the public, the userprefers a seat having a minimum-amount of surface in contact .withuncovered portions of the body.

A further object of the invention is directed to clamping means mountedon said supports for temporarily securing paper or cloth which the usermay wrap around the supports as a protection during cold weather.-

when the water closet is in an unheated room. 7 p

With the above and other ob ects in vlew,

the invention consists of the construction and combination of parts nowto be described, pointed out in the 'claims and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1' is a perspective view of the hopper in position and coupled upfor use, Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the upper ends of the arms.

Referring to the drawings, 10 is the hopper as a whole, made entirely ofporcelain enalneled metal, the top 11 of which at the front of thehopper is flat and lies in a horizontal plane. This top may itself formthe seat or serve as a support for the usual wooden seat, not shown. Thefront of the hopper 10 is narrowed and projects forwardly as at 12 andin the top is a depression' to form a urine trough 13 that is continuousrearwardly with the bowl 14.

At the rear of the seat portion proper and about midway the depth of thehopper from front to rear are two arms 15 and 16 that project verticallya distance ofv six or eight inches from the top 11 of the hopper on eachside of the bowl 11, and at the top these arms extend horizontallytoward each other over the bowl as at 17. The ends of the extensions 17are spaced apart a few inches as shown, and on the under side of each issecured a plate 19 that extends to the space 20 between the extensions.These plates are retained in place by bolts 18 and may be resilient.They serve to hold paper or cloth wrapped around the extensions when thelatter are used as a seat in cold weather.

- Behind the arms 15, 16 and separated from them a suitable distance isan upstanding back 22, integral with the rear of the hopper 10 andextending a little higher than the top of said arms. The front wall 23of the back 22 is flat and disposed vertically at the top, graduallymerging with the sides of in a similar groove 28 just below the inneredge of the top 11 of the hopper that extends forwardly from the back tothe front of the urine trough 13. This pipe also has numerous smallperforations 26 for streams of water directed over the walls of the bowl14 and the urine trough.

A pipe 29 extends from a flushing tank, not shown, of any constructionand is connected at the top of the back 22 to the perforated flushingpipe 25. Avalve 30 in the pipe- 29 controls the flow of water and isopened by means hereinafter described.

Integrally formed with the hopper 10 on each side just below the top 11is an outwardly projecting ledge or bracket 31, flat on the top with adepression 32 therein at the front end and a depression 33 in rearthereof. Through the bottom of one of the rear depressions 33 is a hole34 in which a rod 35 slides freely, the lower end of said rod havingpivotal connection with one end of a lever 36, fulcrumed between itsends to ed at its other end to the stem 38 of valve 30. Depression ofthe rod 35 opens the valve 30 which is closed by a spring within thevalve casing or Where most convenient and efficient. A horizontal plate39 is fastened on the top of the rod 35 within the depression 33 andaffords a broad and readily porthis feet on the ledges or brackets 31,

flushing the hopper after use by depressing the rod 35 through pressureof the foot on plate 39, and opening the flushing'valve.

' The extensions 17 being spaced apart, the

external organs do not contact therewith, and such extensions havingrelatively small area, little surface is exposed for contact with theuncovered portions of the body so that danger of contracting contagiousdiseases in a public place is greatly lessened.

In cold weather, the user may, for comfort, wrap the extensions and theupper ends of the arms with paper and secure such wrappings by means ofthe spring plates 19.

While I have herein shown and described only one specific form of theinvention it will be understood that changes and modifications might beresorted to without departing from the spirit and scope and my inventionand hence I do not wish to be limited to the exact disclosure but onlyto such points as may be set forth in the'claims.

' I claim:

1. In a water closet, a hopper having the usual seating portion, and apairof'integral upstanding arms with flat tops which together form ahigher supplemental seat in rear of the main seat.

2. In a water closet, a hopper having the usual seating portion, and anupstanding arm on each side at the rear of the seat, each arm having aninturned end with a fiat top, said arms together forming both a backrest and a supplemental seat.

3. In a water closet, a hopper having the usual seating portionupstanding arms forming a supplementa seat at the rear of said portion,and laterally extending supports for the feet on the sides of thehopper.

4. In a water closet, a hopper, an upstanding arm on each side of saidhopper intermediate the front and rear of the same, said hopper in frontof the arms having a flat top to form a seat, the upper ends of the armsforming a supplemental seat, and sup- 6. In a water closet thecombinatlon with the hopper having a seat, of upstanding i11- tegralarms in rear of the seat having inwardly turned upper ends, and a backintegral with the hopper in rear of and spaced from said arms, the frontwall of said back being continuous with the interior of the ho per.

f In a water closet, the combination with the hopper having a seat, ofupstanding integral arms at the rear of the seat having inturned upperends spaced apart, a back integral with the hopper in rear of andseparated from said arms, and a perforated flushing pipe surrounding theinner wall of said back and the top of the hopper.

8. In a water closet, the combination with the hopper having an integralback projecting above the top of the hopper, said back having a verticalfront wall and an over hanging flange around the edgethereof, ofupstanding arms between said back and the front of the hopper andintegral therewith, and a perforated flushing pipe extending around thefront wall within the flange thereof and around the inner side of thehopper at the top.

9. In a water closet, the combination with the hopper, of aback'integral with said hop- 4 per and pro1ecting above the top thereof,a vertical front wall for said back continuous with the interior of thehopper, a flange grooved on its inner edge surrounding the top and sidesof said wall, a perforated flushing pipe tinuous with a like pipe aroundthe hopper top, and upstanding arms between said back and the front ofthe hopper and integral with the hopper.

' 10. In a water closet, the combination with the hopper having a seat,of upstanding arms having inturned upper ends in rear of the seat, andclamping means on the under sides of the inturned ends.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUTHER F. ERWIN. Witnesses W. E. DRAPER, I. M. PRESLEY.

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